This interchange becomes evident when I regard this supreme being, which, relatively to the world, was absolutely (unconditionally) necessary, as a thing per se.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

We may further remark that Ramusio's version betrays indications that one of its bases either was in the Venetian dialect, or had passed through that dialect; for a good many of the names appear in Venetian forms, e.g., substituting the z for the sound of ch, j , or soft g , as in Goza, Zorzania, Zagatay, Gonza (for Giogiu), Quenzanfu, Coiganzu, Tapinzu, Zipangu, Ziamba .
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The blackbird is a perfect gentleman, in deportment and attire, and is not noisy, I believe, except when holding religious services and political conventions in a tree; but this Indian sham Quaker is just a rowdy, and is always noisy when awake—always chaffing, scolding, scoffing, laughing, ripping, and cursing, and carrying on about something or other.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

for thy voice is music and thy English broken; therefore, Queen of all, Katherine, break thy mind to me in broken English, wilt thou have me?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Whereupon he was afraid that this stranger and prophet should be in better esteem with the king than himself, and obtain greater honor from him: and he gave orders to his sons to saddle his ass presently, and make all ready that he might go out.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

It becomes envy when something by way of intrigue or evil communication, etc., has been undertaken against the envied person.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

But meanwhile a principle is boldly enunciated, which must in the end prove fatal to slavery.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

there is timber enough here to support an establishment, provided it be erected with brick or stone either of which would be much cheaper than wood as all the materials for such a work are immediately at the spot.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

But Fortune does yet more evidently manifest the share she has in all things of this kind, by the graces and elegances we find in them, not only beyond the intention, but even without the knowledge of the workman: a competent reader often discovers in other men’s writings other perfections than the author himself either intended or perceived, a richer sense and more quaint expression.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

In vain did she endeavor to adjust her veil, which was thoughtlessly thrown back from her face in her dream of peace; but it became entangled with the trimmings of her bonnet, and it was impossible to disengage it.
— from Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale by Ida Glenwood

“Only my old one, and that is bent every way.”
— from Bertha's Christmas Vision: An Autumn Sheaf by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Flowers less rare, violets and lilies of the valley, closely set and luxuriant, grew in beds edged with moss around the roots of the larger plants and in many open spaces.
— from The Witch of Prague: A Fantastic Tale by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

She said polite she’d be happy to; but she said, seeing both gentlemen had spoke at once for her, they must fix it between ’em which one had the call.
— from Santa Fé's Partner Being Some Memorials of Events in a New-Mexican Track-end Town by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

We must not only know the forgiveness of our sins, and our entire freedom from guilt, wrath, judgment, and condemnation; but also our complete deliverance from this present evil world and all its belongings, ere we can intelligently serve the Lord.
— from Elijah the Tishbite. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. V by Charles Henry Mackintosh

To many of them, this part of the story seemed scarce credible, though, for my part, I believed every word of it.
— from Lost Lenore: The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Mayne Reid

It is by examining what actually takes place in the Union, and not by comparing the Union with France, that we may discover whether the American government is really economical.
— from American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville

In time the Catholic practice and theory of asceticism became more formalized and elaborated, and its beneficial effects were held to extend beyond the individual himself.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis

Primary education, secondary studies, as governed by the machinery controlled through the Board of Intermediate Education, and university teaching as directed and rewarded through the Royal University, have all in the last resort been inspired by Englishmen who thought it very desirable that Irish boys and girls should learn to read and write and cipher, and that young men and young women should equip them [Pg 82] selves for clerkships in the civil service, but who never for one instant realised that the end of education is divergence not conformity—to elicit, whether from the race or from the individual, a full and characteristic development.
— from Irish Books and Irish People by Stephen Lucius Gwynn